DEAR EVAN HANSEN Sets September 18 Closing Date on Broadway — Page 3

Yeah I don't really have an issue with Platt's acting in the film, it's just that he looks so wrong for it. I actually originally thought he might look fine, but they caked him in so much makeup he was at times frightening.

I didn't care at all for Stephen Chobsky's direction, but I also don't blame him too much either, just because I think the original show is just too stagey to work as a film.

Personally I'd place more blame on Steven Levenson's writing. Between the new material that adds little, removing most of Connor's role and the crucial look into Evans mind, greatly diminishing the adult perspective, and so on, I wouldn't have even guessed that he wrote the original book if I didn't know before watching. Of course, I don't know how much some of this is his own ideas or what he was told to do by higher ups.

This past week the show grossed $508k. If the weekly grosses continue to be in the low $500k or high $400k, do you think the show might close sooner than Sept 18th?

Does anyone know what the weekly costs are for DEH nowadays?

Jarethan said: "quizking101 said: "Damn. A giant has fallen. Though I kinda figured this would happen soon after the major black eye that god-awful movie gave to the show’s brand…"

Not sure if that is the reason. The Phantom movie was a disaster — although I did enjoy it — and the show is still running more than a decade later. I think there were a few others, it can’t recall right now, so I may be wrong.


i wonder if it is suffering from the same disease some of the more serious shows have been suffering…’if I am going to have to wear a mask, I want to be sure that it will make me happy OR that it has stars’. Realize it is a musical, but seems to be similar to Hangmen, The Minutes, North Country, and other shows; despite very good reviews, they are not incenting people to attend. OR maybe it just reached the end of the line, which seems to be the case with CFA also. We will never know how many performances they would have run if Covid had not occurred, but I imagine their eventual total number of performances will have been seriously impacted."

I don't think the film is the ONLY reason, but I do think a poorly-made adaptation of an ethically questionable musical helped take some wind out of the sails.

PHANTOM was a worldwide phenomenon well before the movie came out. The show was practically bulletproof.

I guess there’s a reason why film versions of THE SOUND OF MUSIC, FIDDLER ON THE ROOF, and CABARET were made after the shows had closed on Broadway.

Had DEAR EVAN HANSEN been a great movie, it could‘ve helped to keep the show running.

Alas, the film adaptation of DEAR EVAN HANSEN was no CHICAGO.

''Evan'' was a hit because of Platt? Likely, but certainly didn't need him to survive, the only time the show made 2M+ was without Platt.

The show, while enjoying the success of the Tony love and the ''fresh'' aspect was doing 1.6-1.7M a week for a long time (the producers did really got a lot of money out of this cow), but in 2019 the grosses were already in the 1-1.2M a week, pre-COVID they had many weeks under 1M.

Had we not went through the pandemic, and the movie, I would say ''Evan'' would had been gone by now.

It was a hit, last 3-4 years and it would been done. Happens very often.

And again, most people didn't even saw the movie version of the show.

The irony for me is that my older daughter recently discovered Dear Evan Hansen and liked it a lot more than I expected. She saw it on Broadway during a quick NYC trip this spring, saw it again on tour in Denver last weekend.

The show really was a sensation for a long while, the biggest new musical since Hamilton. I thought it was a well-crafted show that resonated with a lot of the upper middle class parents who saw it. (One of the movie's many mistakes, I thought, was de-emphasizing the parents - even though it wouldn't have mattered.) I was never as bothered by the show's ethics as some, because Evan's actions by Act Two were obviously awful. The only thing that annoyed me was its ability to have it both ways, including the "You Will Be Found" marketing campaign.

And that worked, until it didn't. The Toronto flop was a harbinger of sorts. It seemed like everyone who hated the musical was just waiting for the movie to unleash their wrath. And the film did them all an enormous favor by being such an easy target. But the show was never as bad as its critics made it out to be. It wasn't my favorite musical from that season but it was good at what it did. My daughter was telling me about all the people sniffling in the theater in Denver. As a stage musical, it still works. But like almost everything, it went out of fashion.

Call_me_jorge said: "Someone on Twitter pointed out the show announced it was closing in the west end at the end of may and and on Broadway in early June."



Well obviously "someone on Twitter" was incorrect. SHOCKING!!

JSquared2 said: "Call_me_jorge said: "Someone on Twitter pointed out the show announced it was closing in the west end at the end of may and and on Broadway in early June."



Well obviously "someone on Twitter" was incorrect. SHOCKING!!

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Someone can’t read apparently

My Video opinions on Deh closing , though the movie wasn't what killed the show, it had been on a decline since 2019

If the producers were smart, they'd bring back Rachel Bay Jones, put in a really strong Evan, and then film the show with Gaten in as Jarrod. Then, wait a year and put it on a streaming platform like Netflix. It would bring in more revenue, and it might wash away the nasty taste the movie gave people.

I feel like they should have filmed it with Jordan Fisher.

Platt's haircut when he performed Evan on Broadway was fine.... not sure why they changed it for the film.